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Georgia Gardener
celeste_gw

Plant ID

celeste
13 years ago

I have a plant that is not a day lily, but is called (Southern term) lemon custard. It grows tall, has huge spiky thorns and makes little lemon like fruit. Can anyone tell me the latin name or maybe another Southernism that might lead me to id it?

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